{"id":272240,"date":"2026-06-13T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/microsoft-paid-20-million-to-protect-one-letter-from-linux\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T12:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T16:50:08","slug":"microsoft-paid-20-million-to-protect-one-letter-from-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/microsoft-paid-20-million-to-protect-one-letter-from-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft paid $20 million to protect one letter from Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft paid $20 million to protect one letter from Linux<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/microsoft-paid-20-million-one-letter\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-13 12:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.xda-developers.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Back at the turn of the 21st century, computers weren’t quite as mainstream as they are today. As such, we saw some really weird decisions made by hobbyists and companies that would shape how things would shake up today. For instance, there was TempleOS, an entire operating system designed by a man inspired by God.<\/p>\n

Today, we’re going to be taking a deep dive into the world of Lindows, and, for reasons you’ve probably already garnered from its name, the struggles it had with a young Microsoft back in the day.<\/p>\n

\n Lindows wanted to fix a common Linux problem in the wildest way possible
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\n And it tried to achieve it really early on in the tech scene
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If you’ve ever moved from Windows to Linux, you’ll know that you can’t take every app with you. While some of your programs will have a Linux-native variant, others will require a workaround such as running it through Wine, and others still won’t even work with that. But what if this problem was solved long, long before modern-day Windows? What if, say, we got over that hurdle all the way back in 2001?<\/p>\n

Well, that was the goal of Lindows OS. As you might imagine from the name, Lindows is a portmanteau of Linux and Windows. The premise was simple on paper, but wild in practice: ship a Debian build of Linux and push everything that wasn’t native through Wine. That way, people can use Linux and not give up their Windows apps.<\/p>\n

Now, remember, this feat is pretty tricky to do today, in 2026. There are still apps that don’t work properly in Wine; for instance, at the time of writing, there’s a big fight to get Photoshop working properly through it. Now rewind our tech a quarter of a century and try it…<\/p>\n

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